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1 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April | April | April is the fourth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and comes between March and May. It is one of four months to have 30 days.
April always begins on the same day of week as July, and additionally, January in leap years. April always ends on the same day of the week as December.
April's flowe... |
2 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August | August | August (Aug.) is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, coming between July and September. It has 31 days. It is named after the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar.
August does not begin on the same day of the week as any other month in common years, but begins on the same day of the week as February in le... |
6 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art | Art | Art is a creative activity that expresses imaginative or technical skill. It produces a product, an object. Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, performing subjects, and expressing the author's thoughts. The product of art is called a work of art, for others to experience.
Some art is useful ... |
8 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/A | A | A or a is the first letter of the English alphabet. The small letter, a or α, is used as a lower case vowel.
When it is spoken, ā is said as a long a, a Diphthong of ĕ and y. A is similar to Alphabet of the Greek alphabet. That is not surprising, because it means the same sound.
"Alpha and Omi" (the last letter ... |
9 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air | Air | Air is the Earth's atmosphere. Air is a mixture of many gases and tiny dust particles. It is the clear gas in which living things live and breathe. It has an indefinite shape and volume. It has mass and weight, because it is matter. The weight of air creates atmospheric pressure. There is no air in outer space.
Air ... |
12 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20communities%20of%20Spain | Autonomous communities of Spain | Spain is divided in 17 parts called autonomous communities. Autonomous means that each of these autonomous communities has its own executive, legislative judicial powers. These are similar to, but not the same as, states in the United States of America, for example.
Spain has fifty smaller parts called provinces. In 1... |
13 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Turing | Alan Turing | Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (London, 23 June 1912 – Wilmslow, Cheshire, 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician and computer scientist. He was born in Maida Vale, London.
Early life and family
Alan Turing was born in Maida Vale, London on 23 June 1912. His father was part of a family of merchants from Scotland. Hi... |
14 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanis%20Morissette | Alanis Morissette | Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian-American singer and songwriter. She was born in Ottawa, Canada. She began singing in Canada as a teenager in 1990. In 1995, she became popular all over the world.
As a young child in Canada, Morissette began to act on television, including... |
17 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20Illustrator | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Illustrator is a computer program for making graphic design and illustrations. It is made by Adobe Systems. Pictures created in Adobe Illustrator can be made bigger or smaller, and look exactly the same at any size. It works well with the rest of the products with the Adobe name.
History
It was first released in... |
18 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andouille | Andouille | Andouille is a type of pork sausage. It is spicy (hot in taste) and smoked. There are different kinds, all with different combinations of pork meat, fat, intestines (tubes going to the stomach), and tripe (the wall of the stomach).
Other sorts are "French andouille" and "German andouille"; they are less spicy than Caj... |
19 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farming | Farming | Farming is growing crops and keeping animals for food and raw materials. Farming is a part of agriculture.
Agriculture started thousands of years ago, but no one knows for sure how old it is. The development of farming gave rise to the Neolithic Revolution as people gave up nomadic hunting and became settlers in citie... |
21 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic | Arithmetic | In mathematics, arithmetic is the basic study of numbers. The four basic arithmetic operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, although other operations such as exponentiation and roots are also studied in arithmetic.
Other arithmetic topics includes working with negative numbers, fractions, d... |
22 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addition | Addition | Not to be confused with building extension which are also called additions
In mathematics, addition, represented by the symbol , is an operation which combines two mathematical objects together into another mathematical object of the same type, called the sum. Addition can occur with simple objects such as numbers, an... |
27 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia | Australia | Australia, formally the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country and sovereign state in the southern hemisphere, located in Oceania. Its capital city is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney.
Australia is the sixth biggest country in the world by land area, and is part of the Oceanic and Australasian regions. Austra... |
28 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20English | American English | American English or US English is the dialect of the English language spoken in the United States of America. It is different in some ways from other types of English, such as British English. Most types of American English came from local dialects in England.
Use
Many people today know about American English even if... |
30 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture | Aquaculture | Aquaculture is the farming of fish, shrimp, abalones, algae, and other seafood. Aquaculture supplies fish, such as catfish, salmon, and trout. It was developed a few thousand years ago in China. Aquaculture supplies over 20% of all the seafood harvested.
Fish farming has been practiced, in some parts of the world,... |
32 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation | Abbreviation | An abbreviation is a shorter way to write a word or phrase. People use abbreviations for words that they write a lot. The English language occasionally uses the apostrophe mark ' to show that a word is written in a shorter way, but some abbreviations do not use this mark. More often, they use periods, especially the on... |
33 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel | Angel | In many mythologies and religions, an angel is a good spirit. The word angel comes from the Greek word angelos which means "messenger". Angels appear frequently in the Old Testament, the New Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas.
Different references to angels throughout the Bible suggest different kinds and ranks of angels, su... |
35 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20hominem | Ad hominem | Ad hominem is a Latin word for a type of argument. It is a word often used in rhetoric. Rhetoric is the science of speaking well, and convincing other people of your ideas.
Translated to English, ad hominem means against the person. In other words, when someone makes an ad hominem, they are attacking the person they a... |
37 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20American | Native American | Native Americans (also called Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, Amerindians or indigenous peoples of the Americas) are the indigenous peoples and their descendants, who were in the Americas before Europeans arrived.
Sometimes these people are called Indians, but this may be confusing, because it is the same word... |
39 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple | Apple | An apple is the edible fruit of a number of trees, known for this juicy, green or red fruits. The tree (Malus spp.) is grown worldwide. Its fruit is low-cost and popular, and is a common fruit all over the earth.
Applewood is a type of wood that comes from this tree.
The apple tree comes from southern Kazakhstan, Ky... |
43 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic%20religions | Abrahamic religions | An Abrahamic Religion is a religion whose followers believe in the prophet Abraham. They believe Abraham and his sons/grandsons hold an important role in human spiritual development. The best known Abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Smaller religious traditions sometimes included as Abrahamic reli... |
45 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra | Algebra | Algebra (from Arabic: الجبر, transliterated "al-jabr", meaning "reunion of broken parts") is a part of mathematics. It uses variables to represent a value that is not yet known. When an equals sign (=) is used, this is called an equation. A very simple equation using a variable is: . In this example, , or it could als... |
47 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom | Atom | An atom is the basic unit of matter. All normal matter – everything that has mass – is made of atoms. This includes solids, liquids, and gases. The atom cannot be broken to parts by chemistry, so people once thought it was the smallest and simplest particle of matter. There are over 100 different types of atoms, called... |
48 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy | Astronomy | Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial bodies. That means stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and nebulae are studied including supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation. Astronomy concerns the development, physics, chemistry, meteorology and movement of... |
49 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture | Architecture | Architecture is the process of designing structures andbuildings. It uses both art and engineering. Examples include houses, churches, hotels, office buildings, roads, viaducts, tunnels and bridges.
Architecture is the profession of an architect. Usually, a person must study at an institution of higher education (uni... |
50 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy | Anatomy | Anatomy is the study of the bodies of people and other animals. Anatomy is the study of the inside of the body and outside the body. Anatomy notes the position and structure of organs such as muscles, glands and bones. A person who studies anatomy is an anatomist.
The history of anatomy dates back to 1600 BC when Egy... |
51 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid | Asteroid | An asteroid is a space rock. It is a small object in the Solar System that travels around the Sun. It is like a planet but smaller. They range from very small (smaller than a car) to 600 miles (1000 km) across. A few asteroids have asteroid moon.
The name "asteroid" means "like a star" in the ancient Greek language. A... |
52 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan | Afghanistan | Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari: ), is a country in Central Asia. It borders with Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast. Kabul serves as the country's capital city.
Afghanistan is cu... |
53 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola | Angola | Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country in southern Africa. It shares borders with Namibia in the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the north, and Zambia in the east. Its west border touches the Atlantic Ocean. Its coastline is 1600 kilometers. Angola's capital is Luanda. The country has ma... |
54 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina | Argentina | Argentina (officially the Argentine Republic) is a country in South America. Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest country in the world.
Spanish is the most spoken language, and the official language, but many other languages are spoken. There are minorities speaking Italian,... |
55 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria | Austria | Austria (, ; ), officially the Republic of Austria ( ), is a country in Central Europe. Around Austria there are the countries of Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. Currently, the chancellor is Karl Nehammer The previous chancellor was Alexander Schallenberg (2... |
56 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia | Armenia | Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստան, Hayastan), officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country located in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.
History
Hayasa-Azzi may have played a significant role in the ethnicity of Armenians. It has an ancient cultural heritage. One of the earliest Armenian kingdoms such a... |
57 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology | Archaeology | Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of the human past. It looks at remains and objects left by the people who lived long ago. These remains may include old coins, tools, buildings, and inscriptions. Archaeologists, the people who study archaeology, use these remains to understand how people lived.
Fieldwork
Whe... |
58 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application | Application | The word application has several uses.
In medicine, 'application' means putting some drug or ointment usually on the skin where it is absorbed into the human body.
In computer software, an application is a type of program which is designed for a particular function. Example: word processing.
In business or governme... |
62 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal | Animal | Animals (or Metazoa) are living creatures with many cells. They are eukaryotes. Animals get energy from other living things. Usually they eat them or are parasites. Some have photosynthetic protists as symbionts.
The study of animals is called zoology. The study of ancient life is called palaeontology.
Most animals ... |
63 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration | Acceleration | Acceleration is a measure of how fast velocity changes. Acceleration is the change of velocity divided by the change of time. Acceleration is a vector, and therefore includes both a size and a direction. Acceleration is also a change in speed and direction, there is:
Speed (a scalar quantity) (uses no direction)
Dis... |
68 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20pudding | Black pudding | Black pudding is an English name for zwarte pudding. It is food made by cooking down the blood of any mammal (usually pigs or cattle) with meat, fat or filler until it is thick enough to congeal (become firm or solid) when cooled.
Types of black pudding
In Great Britain, blood sausage is called "black pudding". The... |
69 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot%20device | Boot device | A boot device is used to start a computer. It is named after a boot which fits on the foot. The word bootstrap is also closely related, and means, to use something simpler to get something more complex to make itself work better. It comes from the English phrase "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps."
Before a co... |
70 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot | Boot | A boot is a type of footwear that protects the foot and ankle. Boots are higher and larger than shoes and sandals. Some boots are high enough to protect the calves (lower part of the leg) as well. Some boots are held on with bootstraps or bootlaces. Some also have spats or gaiters to keep water out. Most have a very... |
71 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy | Bankruptcy is a legal process which happens when a person or an organization does not have enough money to pay all of its debts. Legally they are insolvent.
Where it is a person who cannot pay their debts, the person's creditors may ask the court to appoint a trustee in bankruptcy. This is a professional accountant... |
74 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast%20sausage | Breakfast sausage | Breakfast sausage is a type of fresh pork sausage made from seasoned ground meat mixed with bread crumbs. Breakfast sausage has a blander flavor than many other types of sausage, such as British or Italian-style sausages.
Using breakfast sausages
Breakfast sausages are not cured or smoked like other types of sausages,... |
76 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser | Browser | A browser is a name given to any animal, usually a herbivorous mammal, which eats leaves and shrubs rather than grass. It is contrasted with grazers, which eat grass.
Ecology
Animals by eating behaviors |
80 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeping | Beekeeping | Beekeeping or apiculture is the farming of honeybees.
Uses
The keeping of bees is usually, and has been in the past, for honey. That is becoming less true. Instead, it is more used for crop pollination and other products. These are wax and propolis.
There is only one queen bee in each hive and she is bigger than the... |
83 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20English | British English | British English or UK English is the dialect of the English language spoken in the United Kingdom. It is different in some ways from other types of English, such as American English. British English is widely spoken throughout most countries that were historically part of the British Empire.
Use in other countries
Am... |
85 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being | Being | Being is also a present tense part of to be
The word being means a living person or animal. ‘Human being’ means the same as ’person’. Men, women, and children are human beings.
Some people write stories or make movies about beings from other planets. Most religions talk about supernatural beings, for example spirits,... |
89 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing | Beijing | Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China. The city used to be known as Peking. It is in the northern and eastern parts of the country. Having more that 21 million residents, it is one of the most populous capital cities.
The city of Beijing has played a very important role in the development of China.... |
90 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle | Bottle | A bottle is a container used to carry liquids. Bottles can have many different sizes. Bottles are usually made of glass or plastic. Drinks such as milk, wine, lemonade, soft drinks, and water are often put into bottles. Other liquids put into bottles include chemicals like bleach or detergent, and some kinds of medicin... |
91 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry | Berry | The word berry is used for many different kinds of small fruits that have many seeds and can be used as food. Some examples are raspberry, strawberry, sutberry, lingonberry and blueberry.
When botanists talk about berries, they mean a simple fruit produced from a single ovary. They sometimes call this true berry, to d... |
93 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boil | Boil | Boil might mean:
Boiling, heating a liquid to the point where it turns into gas
Boil, a type of Staphylococcal infection
Basic English 850 words |
94 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard | Beard | A beard is the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
The hair that grows on the upper lip of some men is a mustache. When a man has hair only below the lower lip and above the chin, it is called a soul patch. Some men have a lot of hair and a big beard, and some have very little. In the modern world, many ... |
98 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black | Black | In light, black is lack of all color. In painting, however, the black pigment is the combination of all colors. In heraldry, black is called "sable". It is the opposite of white.
Origin of black
The word "black" comes from Old English blæc ("black, dark", also, "ink"), from Proto-Germanic *blakkaz ("burned"), and fro... |
100 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic%20plague | Bubonic plague | Bubonic plague is the best-known form of the disease plague, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The name bubonic plague is specific for this form of the disease, which enters through the skin, and travels through the lymphatic system.
The plague was spread by fleas on rats. This method of spreading dise... |
101 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology | Biology | Biology is the science that studies life, living things, and the evolution of life. Living things include animals, plants, fungi (such as mushrooms), and microorganisms such as bacteria and archaea.
The term 'biology' is relatively modern. It was introduced in 1799 by a physician, Thomas Beddoes.
People who study bi... |
102 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany | Botany | Botany is the study of plants. It is a science. It is a branch of biology, and is also called plant biology. It is sometimes called phytology. Scientists who study botany are called botanists. They study how plants work.
Branches of botany
Agronomy—Application of plant science to crop production
Bryology—Mosses, live... |
103 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium | Belgium | Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium (, , ), is a federal state in Western Europe. Belgium is bordered by The Netherlands in the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast and France to the south. Belgium has an area of . Around 11.6 million people live in Belgium. It is a founding member of the Euro... |
104 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil | Brazil | Brazil (officially called Federative Republic of Brazil; how to say: ) is a country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country. The country has about 212 million people. The capital of Brazil is Brasília. Brazil was named after brazilwood, which is a tree that once grew very well along the Brazilian coas... |
108 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry | Chemistry | Chemistry is a branch of science that deals with chemical elements and compounds, and how they work together and change. In other words, chemistry is the branch of science that study fundamental properties of matter and chemical reactions. Chemistry is the study of the substances and their transformations(change).
His... |
109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound | Compound | Chemical compound, a chemical combination of two or more chemical elements
Compound word, a word made from two or more other words |
110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20science | Computer science | Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of computation and practical techniques for their application.
Computer science is the study of manipulating, managing, transforming and encoding information.
There are many different areas in computer science. Some areas consider problems in an abstract manner, ... |
112 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer | Computer | A computer is a machine that uses electronics to input, process, store, and output data. Data is information such as numbers, words, and lists. Input of data means to read information from a keyboard, a storage device like a hard drive, or a sensor. The computer processes or changes the data by following the instructio... |
114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese | Chinese | Chinese might mean:
Anything related to the country of China
Chinese people, the people of China
Chinese language
Chinese characters, the symbols used to write the Chinese and Japanese languages |
117 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent | Continent | A continent is a large area of the land on Earth that is joined together.
There are no strict rules for what land is considered a continent, but in general it is agreed there are six or seven continents in the world, including Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania (or Australasia), and South America... |
119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20element | Classical element | The Greek classical elements are fire, air, water, and earth. In Greek philosophy, science and medicine, these make up a whole.
Fire is both hot and dry.
Air is both hot and wet.
Water is both cold and wet.
Earth is both cold and dry.
The image below has two squares on top of each other. The corners of one are the cl... |
120 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/China | China | China ( Pinyin: Zhōngguó) is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and a nation in East Asia. The official name is People's Republic of China or PRC.
The last Chinese Civil War (19271949) resulted in two different political powers today:
The Republic of China (ROC) (since 1911), commonly known as China since 1... |
121 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country | Country | A country is a territory with distinct political boundaries and borders that claims sovereignty over a specific geographic area with a permanent population, controlled by its own government that enters relations with other states, or a piece of land that's under the control of its own government.
There is no universal... |
122 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester | Colchester | Colchester is a town in the northern part of the English county of Essex. It has a population of 104,000 people. People believe that Colchester is the oldest Roman town in England.
History
Before Roman times, Colchester was Camulodunon. This is a Celtic name that came from Camulos. Camulos was the Celtic god of war.... |
127 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography | Cartography | Cartography is making maps. It is part of geography. How people make maps is always changing. In the past, maps were drawn by hand, but today most printed maps are made using computers and people usually see maps on computer screens. Someone who makes maps is called a cartographer.
Making a map can be as simple as dra... |
129 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator | Creator | A creator is a person who creates something.
In some religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) God (or Allah meaning the God in Arabic) is the most important and original creator of the whole universe - including Man who is made "in his image" (see Genesis) to observe it and control it like God. The idea that anything ... |
131 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20network | Contact network | Contact network may mean:
Creative network
Social network
Power network |
133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorizo | Chorizo | Chorizo is a pork (pig-meat) sausage which people first made in the Iberian Peninsula. It is made with large pieces of fatty pork, chili pepper and paprika. The special taste of this sausage comes from the mild Spanish paprika in it.
In the western hemisphere, the Mexican and Caribbean types are better known. These t... |
134 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity | Creativity | Creativity is the ability of a person or group to make something new and useful or valuable, or the process of making something new and useful or valuable. It happens in all areas of life - science, art, literature and music. As a personal ability it is very difficult to measure. The reason is that we don't understand ... |
135 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism | Catharism | The Cathar faith was a version of Christianity. They were usually considered Gnostics. The word 'Cathar' comes the Greek word katharos meaning 'unpolluted' (from Tobias Churton, The Gnostics) or "the pure ones".
Principles
The Cathars believed that the world had been made by a bad god. They believed that this bad g... |
136 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology | Cosmology | Cosmology is the branch of astronomy that deals with the origin, structure, evolution and space-time relationships of the universe. NASA defines cosmology as "The study of the structure and changes in the present universe". Another definition of cosmology is "the study of the universe, and humanity's place in it".
Mod... |
142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20%28building%29 | Church (building) | A church is a building that was constructed to allow people to meet to worship together. These people are usually Christians, or influenced by Christianity. Some other non-Christian religious groups also call their religious buildings churches, most notably Scientology.
The following description is about Roman Catholi... |
144 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/City | City | A city is a place where many people live close together.
A city has many buildings and streets. It has houses, hotels, condominiums, and apartments for many people to live in, shops where they may buy things, places for people to work, and a government to run the city and keep law and order in the city. People live in... |
146 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking | Cooking | Cooking is a process to make food ready to eat by heating it. Cooking can kill bacteria that may be in the food.
Raw food is food that is not cooked. Some foods are good to eat raw. Other foods are not good for the body when they are raw, so they must be cooked. Some foods are good to eat either raw or cooked.
Metho... |
148 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat | Chat | To chat is to talk about ordinary things that are not very important. A person can chat with another person, or to many people. People also use this word now for parts of the Internet where we can talk with many different people at the same time. Usually, people chat on the Internet in a chat room or messaging service ... |
149 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup | Cup | A cup is any kind of container used for holding liquid and drinking. These include:
teacup
paper cup
Cup may also mean:
Measuring cup, a measuring instrument for liquids and powders, used primarily in cooking
Cup (unit), a customary unit of volume and measure
Cancer of unknown primary origin, form of cancer
The cup ... |
151 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime | Crime | A crime (or misdemeanor or felony) is an act done by a person which is against the laws of a country or region. A person who does this is called a criminal.
The basic idea of what things are called "crimes" is that they are thought to be things that might cause a problem for another person. Things like killing another... |
153 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Cube | Time Cube | Time Cube was a personal website created on 1997 by Otis Eugene Ray. On that website, Ray explained his theory of everything, known as "Time Cube". It described the planet Earth as having a cubic symmetry, and time as rotating four "corners". He also said that all of modern physics is wrong. Scientists reject these ide... |
156 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20of%20Marine%20Life | Census of Marine Life | The Census of Marine Life was a ten-year survey of life in the oceans, starting in 2000. Its head was Ron O'Dor of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It used data from researchers all over the world. More than 70 nations were involved and over a billion US dollars were spent on it.
It was a major wo... |
158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize | Maize | Maize or Indian corn (called corn in some countries) is Zea mays, a member of the grass family Poaceae. It is a cereal grain which was first grown by people in ancient Central America. Approximately 1 billion tonnes are harvested every year. However, little of this maize is eaten directly by humans. Most is used to mak... |
159 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civics | Civics | Civics is the study of government. It most often refers to studying government in high school to prepare to be a good citizen. In college, civics is usually called political science. Since a city has the most unsimple government problems, the word for this study is like that for city.
Theories of civics can be grou... |
161 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus | Calculus | Calculus is a branch of mathematics that describes continuous change.
There are two different types of calculus. Differential calculus divides (differentiates) things into small (different) pieces, and tells us how they change from one moment to the next, while integral calculus joins (integrates) the small pieces tog... |
162 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin | Coin | A coin is a piece of metal that is used as currency, or money. The earliest coins were in Lydia, in what is Turkey today, in 7th Century BC. They were made from electrum, an alloy found in riverbeds.
Most people use coins as currency. They usually have lower value than banknotes. Most are made in government mints.
A... |
164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual%20metaphor | Conceptual metaphor | A conceptual metaphor or cognitive metaphor is a metaphor which refers to one domain (group of ideas) in terms of another. For example, treating quantity in terms of direction:
Prices are rising.
I attacked every weak point in his argument. (Argument as war rather than enquiry or search for truth).
Life is a journey.
L... |
166 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crust | Crust | Crust is a piece of bread where the edge where it is harder and darker.
Crust can also mean:
Crust (geology) - the outer solid layer of a planet such as the Earth but other planets also.
On Earth the crust can be divided into:
continental crust on which the land of the planet Earth sits
oceanic crust which forms mos... |
167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy | Comedy | Comedy (from ), in modern times, is an entertainment with generally funny content. It is able to make people laugh. This definition was used for theatre plays, and was first used in Ancient Greece. Aristotle defined this as “Comedy is, as an imitation of characters of a lower type- not, however, in the full sense of th... |
168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet | Comet | A comet is a ball of mostly ice that moves around in outer space. Comets are often described as "dirty snowballs". They are very different from asteroids. The orbital inclinations of comets are usually high and not near the ecliptic where most solar system objects are found. Most of them are long-period comets and com... |
169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytology | Cytology | Cytology is the study of the cells, especially their appearance and structure. Cells are the small parts that make up all living things, and their effects on each other and their environment.
There are two types of cells. Prokaryotic cells do not have a clear and easy-to-see nucleus, and do not have a membrane, or wal... |
170 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian | Christian | A Christian () is a person who believes in Christianity, a monotheistic religion. Christianity is mostly about the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, in the New Testament and interpreted or prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Christianity is the world's largest religion, with 2.1 billion followers around th... |
171 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese | Cheese | Cheese is a dairy product that is made from milk. There are many types of cheese, such as cheddar, Swiss, and provolone.
Many things affect the form, texture, colour and flavour of a cheese. These include the milk (cow or goat), if the milk has been pasteurized, the amount of butterfat, bacteria and mold in the chees... |
173 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution | Constitution | The constitution of a country (or a state) is a special type of law document that tells how its government is supposed to work. It tells how the country's leaders are to be chosen and how long they get to stay in office, how new laws are made and old laws are to be changed or removed based on law, what kind of people a... |
175 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle | Circle | A circle is a round, two-dimensional shape. All points on the edge of the circle are at the same distance from the center.
The radius of a circle is a line from the center of the circle to a point on the side. Mathematicians use the letter for the length of a circle's radius. The center of a circle is the point in th... |
176 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization | Capitalization | Capitalization (North American spelling), or capitalisation (British spelling), is a process to make one letter or more uppercase. The first letter of a sentence is capitalised in many languages, as are the first letters of proper nouns such as names of people and places. In German, however, all nouns are capitalized... |
178 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba | Cuba | Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean Sea. The country is made up of the big island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud island (Isle of Youth), and many smaller islands. Havana is the capital of Cuba. It is the largest city. The second largest city is Santiago de Cuba. In Spanish, the capital is called "La Habana". C... |
180 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube | Cube | A cube is a type of polyhedron with all right angles and whose height, width and depth are all the same. It is a type of rectangular prism, which is itself a type of hexahedron.
A cube is one of the simplest mathematical shapes in space. Something that is shaped like a cube is sometimes referred to as cubic.
Surface ... |
182 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost%20of%20living | Cost of living | Cost of living is the amount of money it costs just to live in a certain place. It includes food, housing, etc.
Economics |
185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December | December | December (Dec.) is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days, coming between November and January. With the name of the month coming from the Latin decem for "ten", it was the tenth month of the year before January and February were added to the Roman calendar.
December always begi... |
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